VLA Master Slides: Laying Waveguide for the VLA, 1974

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Description

3 men laying pipe in ditch
David Heeschen's role in the design and development of the VLA was especially crucial to what is arguably the most important radio telescope in the world since its completion in 1980. He approved the critical design decisions such as the waveguide for signal transmission, the cooled front ends, and the digital delay and correlator system. That the VLA was rejuvenated as the powerful Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array is testimony to the far-sighted concept which Heeschen developed in the 1960s.

Creator

Records of the NRAO

Type

Still Image

Identifier

master-vla-158.jpg

Original Format of Digital Item

Slide

Location

Start Date

1974

Photo Credit

NRAO/AUI/NSF

Notes

VLA_158

Series

Photographs Series

Unit

VLA Unit

Subunit

VLA Master Slides Subunit

Citation

Records of the NRAO, “VLA Master Slides: Laying Waveguide for the VLA, 1974,” NRAO/AUI Archives, accessed March 28, 2024, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/28754.